Re: [PATCH 1/8] gnu: qt: Update to 5.6.1-1.

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

Sorry, the below message was intended to be cc-ed to the list,
but I apparently forgot.

Andreas

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 08:00:53PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 03:01:21PM +0200, David Craven wrote:
> > The reason why I'm hesitant to split this into three, apart from my
> > personal opinion that that's overkill, I'd rather not build qt three
> > times... If you really want me to I'll do it, but I'm not really sure
> > what -no-mips_dspr2 even does =P
> 
> I am just quietly recompiling Qt over and over again :-)  It just takes
> a long waiting time. We had actually not planned to upgrade the monolithic
> Qt any more; rather, it is supposed to disappear once our current packages
> have migrated to the more modular one. So even if we update once again,
> please continue to try solving your build problem with the modular Qt.
> 
> I will also check whether our packages currently relying on the monolithic Qt
> still compile; otherwise I would not push the upgrade so shortly (let us
> hope so!) before a new Guix release.
> 
> So I will commit the update in time, thank you for your patience.